In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
ALLOGAMOUS
allogamous
(adjective) relating to cross-fertilization in plants
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
allogamous (not comparable)
(botany) Characterized by allogamy.
Source: Wiktionary
Al*log"a*mous, a. (Bot.)
Definition: Characterized by allogamy.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ROOT
(noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; “thematic vowels are part of the stem”
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